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  Samuel Chase
Samuel Chase was born in Maryland on April 17, 1741.
Chase was impeached for his conduct in several "political" trials and his intemperate remarks to a Baltimore grand jury while riding circuit.
Probably the most important consequence of Chase's impeachment was the understanding that members of the Judiciary were expected to withdraw from the hubbub of partisan politics to the cloister of the judicial chambers.
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 Samuel Chase - LoveToKnow 1911
SAMUEL CHASE (1741-1811), American jurist, was born in Somerset county, Maryland, on the 17th of April 1741.
Judge Chase was defended by the ablest lawyers in the country, including Luther Martin, Robert Goodloe Harper (1765-1825), Philip Barton Key (1757-1815), Charles Lee (1758-1815), and Joseph Hopkinson (1770-1842).
The indictment, in eight articles, dealt with his conduct in the Fries and Callender trials, with his treatment of a Delaware grand jury, and (in article viii.) with his making "highly indecent, extra-judicial" reflections upon the national administration, probably the greatest offence in Republican eyes.
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 U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > Historical Minutes > 1801-1850 > Senate Tries Supreme Court Justice
Samuel Chase had served on the Supreme Court since 1796.
The House accused Chase of refusing to dismiss biased jurors and of excluding or limiting defense witnesses in two politically sensitive cases.
Chase appeared before the Senate on January 4, 1805, to declare that he was being tried for his political convictions rather than for any real crime or misdemeanor.
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 Biography of Samuel Chase
Samuel Chase was the son of the Rev. Thomas Chase, a clergyman of distinction, in the protestant Episcopal church, who, after his emigration to America, married the daughter of a respectable farmer, and settled, for a time, in Somerset county, in Maryland, where this son was born, on the 17th of April, 1741.
Chase visited England, on behalf of the state of Maryland, for the purpose of reclaiming a large amount of property, which, while a colony, she had entrusted to the bank of England.
Chase was appointed the presiding judge of a court of criminal jurisdiction, for the county and town of Baltimore, at that time organized.
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 Samuel Chase Summary
Samuel Chase (1741-1811), American politician and member of the early U.S. Supreme Court, was the most controversial of the founders of the American Republic.
Samuel Chase was born on April 17, 1741, in Somerset County, Md. He was educated, primarily in the classics, by his father, the Rev. Thomas Chase, until 1759, when he began the study of law; 2 years later he was admitted to practice.
Samuel Chase (April 17, 1741 – June 19, 1811), was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court and a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Maryland.
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Samuel Chase's career was marked by controversy from his expulsion in 1762 from the Forensic Club, an Annapolis debating society, for "extremely irregular and indecent" behavior, to his impeachment forty years later.
Chase is thus remembered as much for the scandals associated with his career as for his considerable legal and political talents.
Samuel Chase died on June 19, 1811, in Washington, DC, and was buried at Old St. Paul's Church cemetery in Baltimore City.
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 Samuel Chase
Chase could not stand the thought of being obliged to withhold support from a measure he so enthusiastically favored, gladly accepted from congress a mission to Canada in the company of Charles Carroll and Benjamin Franklin.
Chase was the most aggressive anti-British leader in Maryland and upon his return from Canada he and his colleague, Charles Carroll, took to the open road on horseback to make impassioned speeches for independence at farms and towns throughout the colony.
Chase's judicial career was relatively unimportant from that time on, partly because of his sufferings from gout.
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 FindLaw Constitutional Law Center: Supreme Court: Justices: Samuel Chase
Samuel Chase was born in Somerset County, Maryland, on April 17, 1741.
Samuel Chase was tutored privately and studied for the law under the apprenticeship in an Annapolis, Maryland law office.
Chase was an ardent nationalist and was a member of the colonial "Sons of Liberty." In 1764, Chase was elected to the Maryland General Assembly and served there for twenty years.
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 Samuel Chase, Signer of Declaration of Independence
Samuel Chase is regarded as one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America.
Samuel Chase was an Episcopalian and a devout Christian.
Chase was the son of an Anglican clergyman...
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 Samuel Chase, Signer of Declaration of Independence
Samuel Chase is regarded as one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America.
Samuel Chase was an Episcopalian and a devout Christian.
Chase was the son of an Anglican clergyman...
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 Samuel Chase — FactMonster.com
Chase was impeached (1804) by the U.S. House of Representatives for discrimination on the bench against Jeffersonians.
Samuel CHASE - CHASE, Samuel (1741—1811) CHASE, Samuel, a Delegate from Maryland; born in Princess Anne,...
Samuel CHASE - CHASE, Samuel (Birthdateunknown—1838) CHASE, Samuel, a Representative from New York; born in...
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 Colonial Hall: Biography of Samuel Chase, Page 1
Samuel Chase was the son of the Rev. Thomas Chase, a clergyman of distinction, in the protestant Episcopal church, who, after his emigration to America, married the daughter of a respectable farmer, and settled, for a time, in Somerset county, in Maryland, where this son was born, on the 17th of April, 1741.
Chase commenced about the, time of the congress of 1774, in which body he acted as a de-legate from Maryland.
Chase, though young, was distinguished for his abilities, and characterized for a most ardent patriotism, he was appointed one of the commissioners.
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 The Maryland Center for Civic Education :: Lesson Plans
Thomas Chase was one of three executors assigned for Richard, but he either refused to serve or failed to qualify legally as the guardian.
Samuel Chase, Luther Martin, and Townley Chase represented the defendant.
Samuel Chase, Luther Martin, and Jermeiah Chase were counsels for the plaintiff in Webster vs. Hall and won the case before the General Court at the October 1782 term.
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 Samuel Chase - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Chase, Samuel 1741-1811, political leader in the American Revolution, signer of the Declaration of Independence, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1796-1811), b.
A series of brilliant and influential decisions established his leadership in the court until he was eclipsed by the rising genius of John Marshall.
Chase was impeached (1804) by the U.S. House of Representatives for discrimination on the bench against Jeffersonians.
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 Oyez - Samuel Chase
Samuel Chase was tutored privately and studied for the law under the apprenticeship in an Annapolis, Maryland law office.
Chase was an ardent nationalist and was a member of the colonial "Sons of Liberty." Though he signed the Declaration of Independence, he was opposed to the revised Constitution that emerged from the 1787 Philadephia convention.
Chase had given an impassioned speech to a grand jury against democratic "mobocracy." The vote in the Senate was insufficient to impeach him, however.
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 The American Experience | The Duel | People & Events | Samuel Chase
When Republicans under Thomas Jefferson led an impeachment attack against Samuel Chase, an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, the agenda was clearly political.
In March, 1805, when Chase's trial began in the United States Senate, the Republicans were in control of the government.
In short, Burr prevented Chase from being railroaded, and in the end, Chase was acquitted.
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 Samuel Chase
Others concerned Chase’s handling of the trials of John Fries, the leader of an armed tax revolt in Pennsylvania, and James Callendar, a Republican newspaperman accused of libel and known today mainly for exposing President Jefferson’s relationship with one of his slaves, Sally Hemings.
Chase appeared before the Senate on Jan. 4, 1805, and declared that he was being tried for his political convictions rather than for any real crime or misdemeanor.
Chase and his attorneys persuaded the Senate that Chase’s conduct did not justify his removal from office.
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 Chase, Samuel: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
Samuel Chase served as a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1796 to 1811.
However, the Senate did not uphold the House's action and Chase continued to serve on the Court until his death.
Chase remains the only justice who has been the subject of IMPEACHMENT proceedings.
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 Samuel Chase - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Samuel was the son of the Rev. Thomas Chase, a clergyman who had immigrated to Somerset County, Maryland.
In 1796, President George Washington appointed Chase as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
The Senate voted to acquit Chase of all charges on March 1, 1805, and as a result remained in office.
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 Samuel Chase
Samuel Chase, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was born on 17 April 1741 in Princess Anne, Somerset County, Md. He was admitted to the bar in 1761 and was a member of the Maryland Assembly from 1764 to 1784.
The Coast Guard-manned USS Samuel Chase (AP-56) was laid down under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 107) on 31 August 1940 as SS African Meteor by the Ingalls Shipbuilding Co., Pascagoula, Mississippi.
On 9 July, Samuel Chase arrived off Gela, Sicily, for the Allied invasion of that island, and her troops landed in the initial assault early on the 10th.
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 National Park Service - Signers of the Declaration (Samuel Chase)
Fervid Revolutionary Samuel Chase led the campaign that crushed conservative opposition and alined his colony with the others in the independence struggle.
In 1778 Chase lost his office because of adverse publicity generated by the advantage he had taken of knowledge gained in Congress to engage in a profiteering scheme.
In 1783-84 Chase traveled to London as a State emissary on an unfruitful mission to recover Maryland stock in the Bank of England from two fugitive Loyalists.
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 Samuel Chase (AP-56)
Samuel Chase (AP-56) was laid down under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 107) on 31 August 1940 as SS African Meteor by the Ingalls Shipbuilding Co., Pascagoula, Miss.; launched on 23 August 1941; sponsored by Mrs.
Samuel Chase sailed from the United States on 5 March and disembarked troops at Oran on the 19th.
Samuel Chase received 5 battle stars for her World War II service.
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 Samuel Chase — Infoplease.com
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 Samuel Chase - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Samuel Chase - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Chase, Samuel (1741-1811), associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Samuel, two books of the Old Testament that provide the primary source for the history of Israel during the 11th and 10th centuries bc.
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 Samuel Chase
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 Samuel Chase   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Samuel Chase seems to have been one of the patriotic radicals of his day.
Chase was a man of vigor and individuality.
His age, his revolutionary services and his pure judicial character all pleaded in his favor and he was acquitted, to finish his course in universal respect and peace.
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 Samuel Chase Impeachment: Great American Court Cases
That Chase should be removed from his post for committing "High Crimes and Misdemeanors" within the meaning of Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution.
Chase was found not guilty and was allowed to remain in his post.
Congress for the first and only time exercised its constitutional prerogative to try a justice of the U.S....
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 Vote for Judges: The Impeachment of Samuel Chase   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Jefferson's Republicans (and I put it that way because Jefferson's Republicans were the precursor of today's Democrats) controlled the House and had a two-thirds majority in the Senate, enough to convict.
The House impeached Chase explicity for his handling of the trial of John Fries, who led an anti-tax rebellion in 1799.
Whatever reasons for the Senate's acquittal, it is taken to mean today (most recently by Chief Justice Rehnquist in his "Grand Inquests: The Historic Impeachments of Justice Samuel Chase and President Andrew Johnson") as an indication that the founders wanted political hands off the judiciary.
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